A new study that uses ultrafast nanometric imaging found good and bad emitters among populations of carbon dots. This observation suggests that by selecting only super-emitters, carbon nanodots can be purified to replace toxic metal quantum dots i...
Mar 8, 2021
Tiny fluorescent semiconductor dots, called quantum dots, are useful in a variety of health and electronic technologies but are made of toxic, expensive metals. Nontoxic and economic carbon-based dots are easy to produce, but they emit less light....
Mar 8, 2021
Tiny fluorescent semiconductor dots, called quantum dots, are useful in a variety of health and electronic technologies but are made of toxic, expensive metals. Nontoxic and economic carbon-based dots are easy to produce, but they emit less light....
Mar 8, 2021
Using a nanopore, researchers have demonstrated the potential to reduce the time required for sequencing a glycosaminoglycan—a class of long chain-linked sugar molecules as important to our biology as DNA—from years to minutes.
Mar 8, 2021
Gossamer film of tangled carbon nanotubes gives objects a lift The post Light could levitate micron-thin aircraft in Earth’s mesosphere appeared first on Physics World.
Mar 8, 2021
A new study by the international network Women In Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) has highlighted the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues faced by women and marginalized groups working within that field.
Mar 8, 2021
Researchers at the UAB have designed minimalist biostructures that imitate natural enzymes, capable of carrying out two differentiated and reversibly regulated activities thanks to a unique combination of structural and functional properties. The ...
Mar 8, 2021
Research Projects to Advance Autonomous Driving Testbed, Human-Robot Collaboration Georgia Tech researchers will create an outdoor minicity to test autonomous driving in an urban area, while another team will focus on home robo...
Mar 8, 2021
Nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamond materials are promising candidates for photocathode applications due to their remarkable electron emission performance as well as the moderate vacuum requirement.
Mar 8, 2021
A team of researchers from China, the U.S. and Australia has found an example of the formation of concentric circular bands of polarization in a ferroelectric polymer. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the creati...
Mar 8, 2021
